World Leather at Washington congress
07/08/2007
At the start of the summer, World Leather technical editor, Richard Daniels, played a prominent role at the 103rd annual convention of the American Leather Chemists Association, ALCA in Washington DC, combined this year with the 29th Congress of the International Union of Leather Technicians and Chemists Societies (IULTCS). He gave the John Arthur Wilson Memorial Lecture on the opening day of the conference, giving his talk the title ‘Tannery effluent and reedbeds: working with nature’.
The magazine also played its now traditional part in the social programme of the event, sponsoring an organised walk to give delegates the chance to stretch their legs and to see some of the main sites of Washington DC, including the White House and the Capitol. More than 200 delegates took part in this ‘health break’ part of the programme. World Leather has sponsored this part of the event since the magazine’s launch 20 years ago.
The social highlight, though, was a cocktail reception and buffet supper at the city’s oldest hotel, the Willard Intercontinental, sponsored by Buckman Laboratories. Accompanying the firm’s marketing manager for leathermaking technologies, Elton Hurlow, and US sales manager, Dean Didato, as they greeted guests was the first president of the United States, George Washington (or an actor dressed up as him). He delivered an informative and amusing talk on the history of the city that is named after him.
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